My four year old DVD burner can read small thouse small 3inch (or whatever it is) DVD discs.
You can buy a bran new DVD burner (which is obviously more expensive than just the drive) for $30 on newegg.com
What do you suggest as price then?
Speculate Wii's BOM
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My four year old DVD burner can read small thouse small 3inch (or whatever it is) DVD discs.
You can buy a bran new DVD burner (which is obviously more expensive than just the drive) for $30 on newegg.com
What do you suggest as price then?
Is it a SLOT loader though? All tray CD-ROM type of transports from the early 80's can read mini-discs. It's the slot type of transport that I think is new.
It's still Panasonic/Matsushita, just like the cube.
Slot loaders aren't that new, though I can't really guess what their mass production costs might be. I don't recall even a laptop line making as much use of them as the Wii's, so the Wii may be the largest application of that drive type ever. It may be they are substantially more expensive and thus why we haven't seen them much, but both wii and ps3 have them, don't they?
No, I meant Slot-loader that can read (well technically FEED in) mini-discs. My bad but I was referring to that type just before that statement.
Virtually every car stereo made in the late 80's/90's had that type of CD drive.
Never had any personal experience. I have an older slot loading DVD-ROM (Pioneer) but never tried to stick in any of my mini-discs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_CD
This was essentially my understanding. No, I didn't write it.
Aren't car lines usually made in the 10,000s of thousands, not 10s of millions? I may be technically right just on the matter that "all cars" aren't a single product line.
Even if correct, it establishes that slot loading mini disc tech has been available since at least 1999, that's even older than Wii's gpu technology.
Sure, I wasn't saying it was necessarily the first, but it IS different from most slot loaders and thus might not be given the price break of "normal" off the shelf ROM readers.
Supposedly, Nintendo is already close to 4 million wiis. I think they've produced enough on their own to benefit from large scale production, even if the drive isn't an off the shelf drive with new firmware. Though I'd be surprised if Panasonic/Masushita didn't produce an equivalent drive somewhere in their product line up.
What do we expect him to say, "We are making a killing!" They could see they were gonna sell all 4M units. Demand was high, competition price points were even higher. Cha-ching. And it helps cover all the advertising and R&D costs as well -- stuff typically missed in counting BOM, because BOM doesn't really account for "cost to bring to market".
Did you see when that statement was made? I wouldn't make it again at this point in time. So I agree, It's pretty obvious it's not priced as low as the manufacturing costs.
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